Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 6, 2026
mtlynch.io
- Published My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
- Worked on Eversource write-up
Refactoring English
- Updated the purchase page to say you can get a refund if you don’t like the book.
Little Moments
Little Moments is an open-source web app I’m working on to replace the current family photo sharing app (TinyBeans) I used (which I strongly dislike).
- Continued working on design doc
ScreenJournal
ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.
- Switched to Sendamatic for SMTP
- I got tired of Postmark after Active Campaign bought them
- Narrow the scope of notification emails on comment replies
- It was emailing everyone, even if they hadn’t interacted with the review
- I forgot and didn’t realize until I saw Sendamatic’s logs showing it emailed 9 people for a test comment I left a review
- Now the behavior is it just emails the review author and anyone else who already commented
- Consolidate
.clinerulesinto AGENTS.md- I’m pretty unlikely to return to Cline at this point
- Resized the review
<textarea>to fit content- I was doing this manually by grabbing the corner, but it’s nice to have it auto-expand.
- Had exe.dev’s Shelley suggest improvements to the codebase and accepted these:
Pointer Brother
- Added a redact button
- Sometimes I want to share a screenshot with a portion blocked out
NixOS config
AI sandbox
- Adjusted podman image handling so now they all share a single image and a single Nix store
- Before, each directory’s podman stuff would take 100-300 GB, so I was quickly exhausting SSD space
- Fixed my dev shell detection script to use JSON output instead of stdout
- It turned out that colored text output messed up the matching
- Added a
--skip-flakeoption to my sandbox command- Previously, it always tried to load a
flake.nixfile and failed if it couldn’t - The problem was that if I broke my
flake.nix, it meant I couldn’t switch to my LLM sandbox to fix it
- Previously, it always tried to load a
Misc
- Added a link to awesome-meshcore
- Reported another security vulnerability to a vendor